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Tamika Nunley is the William and Sue Gross Professor of History at Duke University, USA. She is the author of At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C. (2021) and The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime and Clemency in Early Virginia (2023).

Arielle Rochelin is a PhD Candidate in U.S. history at Duke University, USA, specializing in African American Women's history. Her dissertation tells the unsung stories of Black missionary women from the United States who travelled to the Congo at the dawn of the twentieth century.

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Introduction, Tamika Nunley and Arielle Rochelin, 1: Civic Virtue and the Political Ethics of Black Women's Early Organizing, Tamika Nunley, 2: Black Women's Political Practices and the "State" of Reconstruction, Brandi Clay Brimmer, 3: Always There: African American Women's History in the Midwest, Jazma Sutton, 4: The Solid Foundation that African American Clubwomen Built as Pioneers of the Civil Rights Movement, Ashley R. Preston, 5: Respectability Reconsidered: African American Churchwomen, the Black Church, and the accommodation of the Godly Gaze, Arielle Rochelin, 6: African American Women's History at the Edge of Black Women's Aesthetics, Kimiyo Bremer, 7: We Are Inherently Valuable: The Importance of The Combahee River Collective, Chanté Morris, 8: Hidden in Plain Sight: A Framework for Accounting for the Labor of Black Women Public Historians, Crystal M. Moten.